Living On A Prayer (SHRED VERSION) · Bon Jovi

87 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-39, 42-48 and 56-61, and 1 more place -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
LIVING ON A PRAYER (SHRED VERSION) · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 49, 50, 54, 62, 81 and 85.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 9 sections: 60 keep time, 8 are fills, 10 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-25.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFCDNQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Living On A Prayer (SHRED VERSION)?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Living On A Prayer (SHRED VERSION) hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Living On A Prayer (SHRED VERSION)?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 49, 50, 54, 62, 81 and 85.

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